@kdubaygillis
Enviro scientist. Kidlit author. linktr.ee/kelliedubaygillis Out now: IF YOU FIND A FAWN art by Wazza Pink from Disney’s Planet Possible & BIG BIKE, LITTLE BIKE art by Jacob Souva from HarperCollins. Great Lakes lover living near Cleveland. Go Blue!
New polling shows @amyactonoh.bsky.social up 10 in against Vivek in Ohio and @ginafortexas.bsky.social tie with Abbott in deep-red Texas.
Both are fierce defenders of public schools in states that have aggressively walked back their public school investments in recent years.
I got a chance to read this upcoming book by @alisonpstevens.bsky.social and it is SO cool! I have to make sure it ends up in one of my @jrlibraryguild.bsky.social boxes. Elementary students will eat this up!
Image showing annual Non farm job growth/decline in the US for the years 2021-2026
Every president since COVID has stayed above the pre-pandemic average — until now.
That yellow bar in 2026 doesn’t just fall short. It crashes BELOW zero.
Years of payroll growth, wiped out.
Trump didn’t inherit a mess.
He created one.
#TrumpsJobsSlump
Reading today with preschool students was magic. I was given the gifts of laughter, off-topic but heartfelt information, requests to stop talking and just read the book, and fuzz. I love kids.
Excited to read with 3 and 4 year olds today. I hope we laugh together. I need a reason to laugh!
So don’t give them money
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans vote down legislation to halt war against Iran in early show of support for Trump’s campaign.
We're at war with Iran. Congress never approved it. Now some members say it's "too late" to even debate it and Raskin is calling that out HARD.
A War Powers Resolution is on the floor NOW. The Constitution is clear. Congress declares war. Not the president.
Watch. Share. Tag your rep. 👇
Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(
Sen. Murphy: They told us in there that this is an open-ended operation that hasn't even really started... they refuse to take off of the table the insertion of ground troops ... there is no question that this is war.
Contradicting most everyone else in his Cabinet, Trump just said: "No, I might have forced their hand," when asked if Israel pulled the U.S. into war with Iran.
The Epstein class's kids won't die in this war. Poor families' kids will.
Billionaires won't suffer. Middle class families will pay more for everything.
And for what? For a different hardline cleric to run Iran than the one who was about to die soon anyway?
TY @tmel1219.bsky.social for this great post from Rep. Jason Crow! Re-election in 2026.
@crow.house.gov
This from the guy who said on election night “I’m not going to start a war”…This from the candidate who said he opposed forever wars and a Republican Party that promoted Trump and Vance as the “Pro-Peace Ticket.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/no-more-re...
Per NYT:
"The Department of Defense is calling these strikes 'Operation Epic Fury.'" 😐
Please call your reps. And then scream into a pillow over the fact we have man children creating geopolitical chaos in the Middle East.
There's a historical tweet for every current situation.
Why is this happening now.. Tim Snyder unpacks it all open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
🤬
My collection of DVDs is looking better every day.
🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump is plotting to steal the 2026 election and his buddy David Ellison and Bari Weiss just won control of CNN.
I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and pro-democracy. No corporate investors. It will never back down. Support it by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs, but this ruling won’t undo the damage to Americans paying higher prices on everything from groceries to housing.
Any refunds must end up in the pockets of the Americans who were illegally cheated out of their money by Donald Trump.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.
Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.
As well as everyone else who stepped up.
Apparently the fascist court will not allow the fascist/child molester president to impose tariffs at will.
Breaking news
uk.news.yahoo.com/supreme-cour...
🚨The Supreme Court just ruled that Donald Trump does NOT have the legal authority to impose tariffs without congressional approval!🚨🚨
It surprises me how often I stun people with this writing advice, so I'll just remind you here:
You don't have to start at the beginning. It probably won't be the beginning anyway. You can write the part you can see/hear/imagine best and go from there.
They are either lying, mistaken or they’ve voted for something they didn’t read or understand.
Let’s hope the Senate does a better job.👇
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
